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NOV.) 29,1927. K650 31 44 J.EAGLES LAUNDRY CLOTHES HOLDER Filed Feb 25. 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet l.

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Nov, 29, 1927. mmam J.EAGLE$ LAUNDRY CLOTHES HOLDER Filed Feb. 25. 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 kW W" f Q'QATTORNEY WITNESSES Z [NVEN TOR. ,fzmfi Patented Nov. I UNlTED- STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

JOSEPH EAGLES, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGINQR T SAMUEL KILLIVINIOK, 0F FIGHTER, OKLAHUMA.

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Application filed February 25, 15326. No. 90434..

'My invention relates to improvements in laundryclothes holders adapted for the transportation of separated lots of clothes from one place to another in a laundry.

One of the objects of my invention is to provide a novel clothes holder of the kind described with which different lots of clothes that are being laundered may be transported from place to place without danger of intermingling the clothes of different lots, and which eliminates liability of clothes of one lot being stained from the water of colored clothes of another lot which is being transported in the same container.

A. further object of my invention is to provide a wheeled support for a clothes container which is strong and of a form and arrangement that it will protect the clothes container carried by it from injury when the support collides with objects which otherwise mightdamage the container.

Still another object of my invention is to provide a clothes container of the kind described with means by which the clothes holding compartments thereof may be va ried to suit the space required by the differ ent lots of clothes held therein.

A further object of my invention is to provide a clothes holder of the kind described, which is simple, cheap, strong, durable, not liable to get out of order, and which has compartments provided with re movable false bottoms which may be interchangeably mounted in the compartments, and which is of a form that provides a maximum of clothes holding space for the size of the holder.

The novel features of my invention are hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the preferred embodiment of my invention,

Fig. 1 is a side elevation, partly broken away, of my improved laundry clothes holder.

Fig. 2 is a bottom view thereof.

Fig. 3 is a top view thereof, partly broken away. i

Fig. 4 is a vertical section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a section on the Fig. 3.

Similar reference characters designate similar parts in the different views.

My invention provides a portable support,

line 55 of which may be a. wheeled truck having a flat bottom 1 mounted on casters 2, and an upstanding ]')Ol YgOlltll, preferably hexagonal, frame. which may be made of angle iron, and comprising vertical angle bars 3 at the corners, the lower ends of the bars 3 being welded to the bottom 1, and horizontal angle irons 4.- weldco'to and connecting the bars 3 at the upper ends thereof.

Slidably mounted in and vertically removable from. the frame is a clothes container 5 of a shape correspondingto said frame, and which is adapted to hold water, the botttom of the container having a valved outlet, which may comprise a drain pipe 6. fastened at its upper end to the bottom of the container 5 and extending throughahole 7 in the bottom 1 of the truck, the lower end of the pipe 6 having removably attached to it a shut off valve 8, Fig. 4. T.

The container 5 is centrally provided with a vertical bar 9 having vertical peripheral guides comprising grooves 10, Fig. 3. The inner corners of the container 5 are respectively provided wit-h vertical guides comprising grooves 11. Vertically removably slidably fitted at their inner and outer longitudinal edges in the grooves 10 and 11 are radial partitions 12, each of which at its upper end is provided with a stiffening roll 13 and which at its lower end has a lateral stiifening flange 14.

The partitions 12 divide the container 5 into equilateral triangular compartments of like size and shape.

Removably mounted in the container 5 is a raised false bottom comprising, preferably, false bottom equilateral triangular members having perforate tops 15 and sides 16 having perforations 17 adapted to register with perforations 18 provided in the adjacent partitions 12, Figs. 1, 4 and 5.

Owing to the shapes of the false bottom members, they may be interchangeably mounted in the different compartments of i the container 5 and in interchangeable positions in said compartments.

In the operation of the invention, the different lots of clothes, which are being laundered and transportedfrom one place to an- W other in the laundry, are placed in the compartments upon the false bottom members 15. If the clothes are wet, the Water therefrom will pass through the perforated tops of the false bottom members and through 119 the perforations 17 and 18. By opening the valve 8 the container may be drained, when desired.

If it is desired to enlarge a compartment to receive a lot of clothes which can not be contained in a single compartment, one or more of the partitions 12 may be withdrawn rom the container 5.

I do not limit my invention to the structure shown and described, as many modifications, within the scope of the appended claims, may be made without departing from I the spirit of my invention.

What I claim is:

1. In a lanndi cloth-es holder, a clothes container, removable vertical partitions dividing said container into compartments, said partitions being perforate adjacent to their lower ends, and false bottom members removably mounted in said compartments respectively and having perforate clothes supporting tops disposed above the perforations of said partitions and having perforate sides.

2. In a laundry clothes holder, a clothes container adapted to hold water and having a valved drain outlet, partitions in said container dividing the latter into compartments adapted to hold clothes, and adjacent to their lower ends having perforations, and

fal e bottom members in said compartments.

respectively having perforate clothes supporting upper surfaces and having sides provided with perforations registering respectively with the adjacent perforations of .said partitions.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

JOSEPH EAGLES. 

